Journalistic Writing
Objectives
In this course, students will contact several journalistic genres (news, features, profiles and columns) and will be able, at the end, to produce high quality journalism works to be published in national newspapers or magazines.
In this course, it is expected that students:
1) understand and apprehend the differences between journalism genres;
2) will be able to adequately gather information in order to prepare and write a journalistic text;
3) contact, through actual cases, the ethical rules of the journalistic profession;
4) frequently produce high quality journalistic texts.
General characterization
Code
722011047
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
António Maria Salvado Coxito Granado
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
None
Bibliography
GODINHO, Jacinto (2009) As origens da reportagem Imprensa, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte.
KOVACH, Bill e ROSENSTIEL, Tom (2005) Os Elementos do Jornalismo, Porto, Porto Editora.
MARTINS, Rui Cardoso (2015) Levante-se o Réu, Lisboa, Tinta da China.
PÚBLICO (2005) Livro de Estilo, 2ªed, Lisboa, Público.
Teaching method
Classes include theoretical lectures, practical analysis of case-studies and collective discussion of the students´ texts.
Evaluation method
Método de Avaliação - - One column 10 % - Participation in class 10 %(20%), - One profile (20%), - Two news stories 15 %- Two feature articles 45 %(60%)
Subject matter
The syllabus of this course will cover: a) the analysis of the characteristics of journalism writing; b) the analysis of different journalism genres; c) the study of the newsgathering procedures and validation of journalistic information; d) the production of journalistic texts, in order to be published on a seminar website or in a national Portuguese newspaper or magazine.